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2015 Boise Interagency Dispatch Center Area of Responsibility 2 Dispatch 3 Fire Suppression Resources 5 Fire Activity Historical Comparisons 6 Fire Activity Statistics by Agency 7 Fire Activity Boise District BLM 10 Fire Activity Boise National Forest 11 Fire Activity Idaho Department of Lands Southwest 12 Fire Activity Significant Acreage 13 Logistical Activity 15 Local Resources Activity - Crews 16 Local Resources Activity – Engines 18 Local Resources Activity – Aircraft 19 Local Resources Activity – SEAT Base 21 Local Resources Activity – Tanker Base 24 Fuels Management 26 Boise BLM Mitigation. Prevention. Investigation 28 Boise National Forest Prevention 30 Idaho Department of Lands Summary 35 Mobilization Center 37 Fire Danger Rating Areas and Map 38 Remote Automated Weather Stations 39 Fire Danger Rating Seasonal Outputs 40 Weather Summary 43 Seasonal Weather and Severity – SNOTEL Information 44 Lightning Summary 47 Fuel Moisture 48 Fuel Moisture Charts 51 1 AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY The Boise Interagency Dispatch Center continued its interagency success in providing safe, cost effective service for wildland fires within southwest Idaho for Boise District Bureau of Land Management, Boise National Forest, and Southwest Idaho Department of Lands. Listed below is the total acreage responsibility of Boise Interagency Dispatch Center and each agency’s ownership and protection areas. SOUTHWEST IDAHO BOISE DISTRICT BLM BOISE NATIONAL FOREST DEPARTMENT OF LANDS OWNERSHIP ACRES 3,826,577 2,085,836 501,394 PROTECTION ACRES 6,603,159 2,124,851 393,058 BOISE DISPATCH PROTECTION RESPONSIBILITY ACRES 9,121,068 OWNERSHIP ACRES BY PROTECTION AREA BOISE DISTRICT BLM BOISE NATIONAL FOREST SW IDAHO DEPT OF LANDS BLM 3,790,694 16,540 19,343 BOR 34,598 46,905 1,386 DOI 11 0 0 HISTORIC WATER 23,461 5,375 722 MILITARY 10,311 805 104 NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE 1,392 0 0 PRIVATE 2,215,556 138,903 193,122 STATE 418,928 46,694 35,771 STATE FISH & GAME 18,802 5,596 432 STATE OTHER 4,094 0 0 STATE PARKS & REC 5,687 0 0 USFS 79,626 1,864,032 142,179 2 Jill Leguineche DISPATCH PERSONNEL Center Manager GS-11 PFT (FS) Vacant Cathy Baird Assistant Center Manager-Intel Assistant Center Manager-Logistics GS-9 PFT (BLM) GS-9 PFT (FS) Carol Field Nicole Oke Lead Dispatcher Lead Dispatcher GS-7 PFT (FS) GS-7 PFT(FS) Mark Rich Alan Mebane IA Dispatcher Lead Dispatcher GS-7 PFT (FS) GS-5/6/7 1039 (BLM) Casey Moore Ashley Zimmerman Lead Dispatcher GS-7 PFT (FS) IA Dispatcher GS-5/6/7 1039 (FS) Ed Harper IA Dispatcher Andra Peterson GS-5/6/7 IA Dispatcher 1039 (BLM) GS-5/6/7 1039 (BLM) Mardi Hart Job Corp Student IA Dispatcher Office Assistant GS-7 PSE (BLM) The Boise Dispatch Center is normally operated with thirteen personnel: one center manager, two assistant center managers, nine initial attack dispatchers, and one office assistant. The center manager position serves as the primary floor supervisor and liaison with the duty officers with the assistant center managers being secondary as needed. The primary duties of the Assistant Center Mangers are Logistics and Intelligence. Cathy Baird serves in the Logistics role and the Intelligence role was vacant this year. Of the nine primary IA dispatchers, two are also assigned as aviation dispatchers and one as night dispatcher. Each dispatcher also has an area of responsibility which could include Bureau of Land Management, southern Boise National Forest, northern Boise National Forest or Southwest Idaho Forest Protective District. There were several personnel changes and movement this year. Kelsey Dehoney one of our IA Dispatchers took an upgrade to the Twin Falls District. We were able to fill behind her in Regional FireHire with Casey Moore from the East Idaho Dispatch office. We had 2 new seasonal dispatchers this year. Andra Peterson from the Boise BLM Helitack crew served as the second Aviation Dispatcher and Ashley Zimmerman from the Idaho City Hotshots. Ed Harper returned to dispatch from the field and worked both the BLM and the State desks. Leigh Ann Hislop took a long term detail to the Boise District training officer position in the spring and her intelligence duties were divided amongst the dispatchers for the remainder of the year. The office assistant position was filled by several Centennial Job Corp students. 3 Local fire activity as a whole was well below the ten year average. Boise District BLM was well below the average for starts and above average for acres burned. For Boise National Forest, the number of fire starts and acres were both well below the 10 year average. Southwest Idaho Department of Lands was just above average for the number of starts but acres burned was over five times the normal (reference charts on page 8). Logistically, our dispatch workload was busier than normal throughout the year as Nationally we spend a fair amount of time in Planning Level 5 and supported all of California, Oregon and Washington (refer to the charts on page 17). For operations, initial attack started with a busy May and June but a very quiet July. Activity picked up the second week of August with the Soda Fire and then it stayed fairly steady but not overwhelming the entire season. Dispatch went to the seven day coverage on May 17th and ended on October 18th. The first 24-hour coverage was May 5th. The regular night shift started on June 14th and ended on September 27th. We opened expanded dispatch on August 11th and closed October 17th. We hosted five Incident Management Teams and two Buying Team this season. Soda Fire 2015 INCIDENT IMT TYPE IMT NAME TEAM HOME UNIT SODA COMPLEX TYPE 1 PECHOTA ROCKY MTN SODA COMPLEX TYPE 2 MARTIN/WHALEN GREAT BASIN COUGAR TYPE 2 ROSENTHAL GREAT BASIN COUGAR TYPE 3 WYATT NEVADA WALKER TYPE 2 DUNFORD GREAT BASIN SODA COMPLEX BUYING TEAM SHUPLA GREAT BASIN WALKER BUYING TEAM EARLY GREAT BASIN Due to our dispatch location being in close proximity to the National Interagency Fire Center, we were honored to have numerous tours from many different offices and countries that included: Office of Aircraft Services, ROSS Phacil and Project Developers, Irwin and the Fire Reporting Group from DOI, Idaho Power Dispatchers, DOI Secretary Jewel, Austin Texas Fire Department, USDA Under Secretary and CIO’s. 4 FIRE SUPPRESSION RESOURCES Below is the list of resources that are dispatched through BDC. AGENCY BLM USFS IDL UNIT IDENTIFICATION ID-BOD ID-BOF ID-SWS AIR ATTACK PLATFORM 1 1 0 TYPE 1 HELICOPTER 0 1 0 TYPE 2 HELICOPTER 0 1 0 TYPE 3 HELICOPTER 1 1 0 HELITACK PERSONNEL 11 22 0 TYPE 1 IHC 0 2 0 TYPE 2 REGULAR IA CREW 0 2 0 TYPE 2 CREW 0 1 1 SMOKE CHASE CREW (5-10 PEOPLE) 0 1 1 SUPER HEAVY ENGINE (TYPE 3) 2 0 0 TYPE 4 ENGINE 12 5 0 TYPE 5/6/7 ENGINE 0 0 4 TYPE 5/6/7 PATROL/PREVENTION 0 8 0 WATER TENDER 3 0 0 DOZER 3 0 0 FUEL TRUCK 1 0 0 MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS TRAILER 1 0 0 MOBILE CACHE/COMMAND TRAILER 1 1 0 CONTRACT RESOURCES NATIONAL TYPE 2 IA CREW 2 REGIONAL ENGINES TYPE 4 17 REGIONAL ENGINES TYPE 6 21 AIRCRAFT CRASH RESCUE APPARTUS 1 NATIONAL BUSES – CREW CARRIER 54 REGIONAL WATER TENDERS - TACTICAL 5 REGIONAL WATER TENDERS - SUPPORT 26 CHIPPER 5 CLERICAL SUPPORT UNIT 1 DOZERS 26 EXCAVATORS 12 FALLER MODULE 8 ROAD GRADERS 5 SKIDDER 0 SKIDGINE 0 HELICOPTER OPERATIONS SUPPORT TRAILER 2 TRANSPORTS TRACTOR/TRAILER 50 MECHANICS/SERVICE TRUCK 6 REFRIGERATED TRUCK/TRAILER 11 WEED WASHING UNIT 9 FUEL TENDER 8 GRAY WATER TRUCK 12 POTABLE WATER TRUCK 4 HANDWASHING STATION – TRAILER MOUNTED 7 5 FIRE ACTIVITY Boise Interagency Dispatch Center dispatched a total of 253 incidents which includes wildland fires, assists to local cooperators, and UTL/false alarms. Within our response area we dispatched to 183 confirmed incidents for 316,963 acres. Our Southwest Idaho 10 year average (2006-2015) is 236 fires for 185,718 acres. Below is a list of 2015 fires and acres that belong to each wildland protection agency with averages and percent of averages. BOISE DISTRICT BLM BOISE NATIONAL FOREST SW IDAHO DEPT OF LANDS BDC – SW IDAHO FIRES 89 FIRES 66 FIRES 28 FIRES 183 5 YR AVG 108 5 YR AVG 98 5 YR AVG 29 5 YR AVG 234 % OF 5 YR AVG 82% % OF 5 YR AVG 67% % OF 5 YR AVG 96% % OF 5 YR AVG 78% 10 YR AVG 101 10 YR AVG 108 10 YR AVG 26 10 YR AVG 236 % OF 10 YR AVG 88% % OF 10 YR AVG 61% % OF 10 YR AVG 107% % OF 10 YR AVG 78% 25 YR AVG 102 25 YR AVG 142 25 YR AVG 26 25 YR AVG 270 % OF 25 YR AVG 87% % OF 25 YR AVG 46% % OF 25 YR AVG 107% % OF 25 YR AVG 67% ACRES 309,046 ACRES 1,600 ACRES 6,317 ACRES 316,963 5 YR AVG 159,610 5 YR AVG 61,709 5 YR AVG 3,664 5 YR AVG 224,983 % OF 5 YR AVG 193% % OF 5 YR AVG 02% % OF 5 YR AVG 172% % OF 5 YR AVG 140% 10 YR AVG 107,674 10 YR AVG 75,182 10 YR AVG 2,862 10 YR AVG 185,718 % OF 10 YR AVG 287% % OF 10 YR AVG 02% % OF 10 YR AVG 221% % OF 10 YR AVG 170% 25 YR AVG 87,180 25 YR AVG 51,282 25 YR AVG 1,407 25 YR AVG 139,869 % OF 25 YR AVG 354% % OF 25 YR AVG 03% % OF 25 YR AVG 449% % OF 25 YR AVG 227% The following table provides a 10 year comparison and average.
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